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TIL South Korea has a complete ban on pornography.

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xG7w TIL Pablo Escobar had four hippos which, left untended for decades, have been breeding and now there are around 50 wandering an area in northwestern Colombia.
ewpE TIL that ‘Seinfeld’ has earned over $2.7 billion since it went off air in 1998.
7poL TIL there is a U.S. Military Cemetery where the “Dishonoured Dead” are buried.
PYwmg TIL of Paul Chartier, a Canadian man who attempted to bomb the Canadian House of Commons in 1966. Unfortunately (for him) the clerk who sold him the Dynamite misremembered the burn time of the fuse, resulting in the bomb prematurely exploding in a bathroom and killing him before he could use it.
9wOp6 TIL that the original lyrics to “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” were much more depressing. The lyrics were changed because Judy Garland refused to sing those lyrics to a child. The lyrics were then changed once more because Frank Sinatra wanted the song to have a more positive tone.